RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's women's 400m hurdler Lucimar Teodoro, the current South American record holder of the event, has been handed a two-year ban for doping.

The Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt) said on Tuesday that the 28-year-old Olympian for both the 2004 Athens and the 2008 Beijing Games had admitted taking a banned substance and waiving her right to a test on the B sample.

The two-year ban, which runs until June 3, 2011, is a minimum punishment regarding a doping case like this, according to the CBAT website.

Teodoro, who recently set a South American record of 55.84 seconds in the Amazonian city of Belem, tested positive at the Brazil Trophy meeting on June 4 for femproporex, an amphetamine used for slimming.

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